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Last fall I took my early era MacBook Air to Apple and ordered a battery replacement for $99. It came back with a new motherboard too. Essentially a new machine, and it took two interactions: drop-off and pick up.

Last fall I bought two Dell desktops (for a client project) and neither has working Bluetooth/WiFi. One machine has been fully out of commission for 2 months and the other is limping along with weak WiFi and no Bluetooth.

The Dell is upgradeable and I could put 3rd party cards in there and get along. But they’re brand new machines under warranty. I’ve had two tech visits and traded more than 45 emails with Dell tech support and I’m still waiting on full system replacements that will ship in February sometime. I bought these machines in November.

Right to repair or not, I trust Apple non-right-to-repair hardware over Dell “I could repair it myself” desktop hardware.

The user experience of dealing with both companies negates the right to repair concern for me, on these right now.
This isn’t true because the all of the apps and a huge amount of the content people consume on iOS devices is made on Macs. The Mac is in fact the golden goose, the iPhone is the egg.
> incumbents are all conspiring to fix prices and the existing consumer protection systems which should be preventing that have been failing Americans for decades

The Sherman Act prohibits monopolies or cartels damaging competitors. As a competitor, you have standing. As a consumer, you do not.

I think this business could be phenomenally cash-flow positive in short order. It's not dissimilar from the way Teva started, just further down the pipeline.
"A few firms losing a bet can spiral into huge effects," if true, sounds like a really, really, really good argument for eliminating higher-risk instruments.

"We don't know how bad things we could get if we are wrong" means you're doing something you shouldn't be.
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> I still think certain events ground value though: bankruptcies, mergers, and dividends attach a real cost/gain to holding a stock.

Those things are themselves the product of the market price, it's not a one way street. This is what Soros' reflexivity is about.
Thanks for posting. Took me a while to get through it! Here are some thoughts. And first and most importantly IANAL.

We have, unfortunately, spent quite a bit of money to put a legal framework in place. Our operating model is slightly different than Workpath/Iggbo, so a number of the concerns in the piece don't apply. I don't want to give too much away b/c the framework we've developed is a competitive advantage.

Health professional quality, HIPAA adherence and data privacy are part of our core mission. They're first-class citizens both in our legal and product/technology frameworks.
Also they apparently have the "biden economic team" looking into the situation so it does go to show that lobbying dollars allows you to get your concerns addressed rather quickly.
If anyone forgets to sell their shares that just means the short sellers will be left hanging even longer.
The company could issue new stock (to get a lifeline of cash from inflated price)

I know someone who tried to convince VW management to do that during the Porche/VW squeeze. They didn't but I see no reason why another management team wouldn't act differently.
The option seller needs to buy the stock to deliver the shares when the option expires, so if the price continues rising their losses are unbounded (by contrast, their gains are bounded by how much they originally sold the option for).
I'm not a rubyist, but the latest Docker Preview has been working great for me.
The goal is to make enough money for pensioners to live off.

If the goal was to reduce risk then pensions would be better off being held in cash. But pension funds dont have enough cash to meet needs so they have to grow.
You don't need to use classes to break a big file into several smaller files.
AOC “admit it’s something to see Wall St.. complain about a message board”
> I’ve been on a few rigs over the years and the Topside structures are heavily contaminated with various petrochemicals.

I bet that is nothing compared to what leaked from the well..
> As a library writer, I'm free to change or remove anything that starts with an underscore because, if someone else is depending on it, frankly, they had it coming. I can assume everyone who uses my library is a responsible adult and I can treat them as that.

Totally agree, as an user, I feel anxious whenever I have to use underscored names. It's great that Python still allows me to do it and there were few times when it was useful, but when it stops working I know it's 100% on me.
how far this has come.....from a dream, over 10 years ago, to this. I know it still seems complicated in some regards etc but the possibility of video over web, p2p capabilities etc instead of having to use terrible apps, Apple stuff, quicktime, etc just to have some video conferencing....was a pipe dream
Most of the time you have:

- short names inside modules. I.e. you might have a function called Foo.merge(...) instead of x.merge_with_foo(...)

- a way to bring modules into scope so you don’t need to specify the name

- not using that many modules. Most lines of code won’t have more than one or two function calls so it shouldn’t matter that much (other techniques can be used in complicated situations)

The key advantage of type-dependant name resolution is in using the same names for different types. You might want to write code like foo.map(...) and it is ok if you don’t know the exact type of foo. With modules you may need to know whether to call SimpleFoo.map or CompoundFoo.map.
Does it still leak IP addresses?
They are far less primitive than Java's - they are classes too, but can't be extended.
Having recently started a script that avoided OO because I wrongly assumed that its was going to be 4 functions and done, I disagree.

I don't care about inheritance, that's just a way for someone to trip you up and make them feel smug about being "elegant"

I don't care for people trying to hide stuff with self._hiddenThing. Its python, nothing is hidden. If I want to reach in and grab your class by the ankles, prepending a "_" isn't going to stop me.

I agree wholeheartedly with dataclasses. I just wish that type annotations were actually enforced at run time. At the moment they are only really useful if you have pyre turned up to 11 (bye bye productivity) or have an IDE that understands type hints.

but, the hill I will die on is this: storing class state in self.blah. It is correct and proper to do that in a class, it limits the amount of args I have to shove into a function/method, it also allows me to pull out and check things before I do them. Yes they can be abused. Yes it means that you need to call functions in order. Yes it means you have to be more defensive about missing state.

But you need to be careful about that anyway. with minimal OO you can avoid a lot of typing and nasty verbose function args in python.
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Thanks man, your suggestions are very helpful. Do you have any podcast recommendations for improving negotiation skills?
That's because Elastic did their own great, concise callout, it's just a little bit hard to find for those not following things closely:

Announcement from 2018:

> "We did not change the licence of any of the Apache 2.0 code of Elasticsearch [...] and we never will"

Edited announcement in 2021:

> "We did not change the licence of any of the Apache 2.0 code of Elasticsearch [...] and we never will¹"

> ¹ [...] we announced a further change to our licensing strategy.
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Except Don Martin appears to have operated by taking that list, and Roget, and inventing new ones. None of which (AFAIK) subsequently entered widespread use. Unlike the yiddish slang Mad used, which I think it helped perpetuate into modern times.
>This is the key insight in news today. You cannot rely on any one source for the full story. You must read multiple perspectives, ideally from different points in the political spectrum.

The problem is that counter-intuitively, in the past with limited news sources, you're more or less forced to hear more sides of the story. A newspaper would carry both e.g. conservatives and liberals (at least a few of the side it didn't favor) to attract people. If you bought it, you had the chance to see the other side expressed.

Now with the internet, we can loose ourselves in an echo bubble of our own creation (only reading stuff on "our" side, since we're no longer forced to get our news wholesale like in print newspaper format). Or the news website or social media site can elect to show us just (or much more of) the stuff we like by itself.
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I didn't know about this. Is Flutter web ignoring accessibility when rendering to HTML? If so that is a no no.
> Basically the market has priced in that while existing car manufacturers have more sales, they are essentially dying

Please. They're not even close to dying.

> and they need to come up with a car that is competitive to the Tesla electric offerings to compete

And they are doing exactly that. VW alone already has $86bn spending committed to its EV lineup.

You associate the existing manufacturers with a Blackberry/RIM situation, but that is simply not the case.

This is more of an Apple/Android type of situation. Apple triggered this paradigm shift, and dozens of others (Samsung, Motorola, etc.) followed suit almost immediately.

Sure, it's going to take existing car manufacturers a few years to catch up. Just as it will take Tesla a few years to ramp up production to competitive numbers.
What happens in the case where the short reaches it due date and neither B nor C want to sell?

Intuitively I would say that the short seller goes bankrupt, A doesn't get any of the stuff he loaned out back, B ends with 60 stocks while C has 40. Is that what happens in reality?
The Culture books can be so weird and wild, I think anime might be a more appropriate medium than a live-action TV series or a movie.
> On the other hand, when seeing a model of atom and solar system for the first time I was convinced reality is a set of layers with the micro- and macrocosm being just the two closest ones we're able to perceive, but I'm far less sure of it now.

Yeah, I thought like this too until we started covering the basics of quantum physics and our teacher explained to us how the Bohr model of an atom was only a crude approximation of what's happening. I no longer see atoms as miniature solar systems, but every now and then, I ponder if the planets aren't macroscopic electron clouds...
AFAIK most ARM SoCs don't support device enumeration so there's no way for the OS to discover which drivers are needed and if you installed the right driver manually it wouldn't know how to find the address of the device. I guess BootReady is supposed to solve this but nobody is using it.
Yes and if it gaps down their broker won't be able to sell fast enough to cover the margin loan. The broker can then usually come after the person's other assets (ie traders can lose more than the cash they transferred to the account in the first place).
Indeed. This is illustrated vividly here: https://youtu.be/hA_B7qPyUDA?t=1120

Two people engage in a "charging race" to see who can charge the most in 15 minutes. The contenders, a Tesla Model Y and the 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E.

The non-Tesla experience is almost comically sad.
This experience is often available for humans too (even in countries without risk of medical bills bankrupting oneself) - it largely depends on how far the religious right has embedded itself in government.

Pieter Hintjens (of ZeroMQ and AMQP fame) chose this option when diagnosed with terminal cancer, and wrote about it extensively at [1] and [2].

[1]: http://hintjens.com/blog:116

[2]: http://hintjens.com/blog:115
The way I'd put it, the mistake was to make inheritance the default. It's a sometimes useful mechanism (called "open recursion" in the FP world).
I'm surprised they said that, but probably your mistake was in asking. :) Even with a membership, I'll occasionally be too lazy to bother pulling my card out at the door, and will just tell (not ask) the person there that I'm going to the pharmacy. They let me go right on by. Once in, you can go anywhere you want. As CogitoCogito said, the real check is at the register, where you can only buy certain items without a card. Apparently that also includes alcohol - never knew that.
>Also, many scientists were/is religious,

That's a fallacy, that won't make a religion real. Neither a paper. Just proofs and replication.
I tend to write in Slim, it does an excellent job of removing most of the tag noise from HTML while giving you more flexibility than Markdown.

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That subreddit was built around losing money on bad trades.
I'm an expat Brit.

Yes, medical care is absolutely insane here. Like jaw dropping on a nearly daily basis insane. Lots of Americans just don't realise how much they're being screwed by the system that has been built, and they buy in the narrative they constantly get told about it being the best health care system in the world, and that coming with a cost.

Note: few people will pay that $225. Most of that gets handled by your health insurance, who will often also have bulk purchasing deals with medical companies that helps drive down the cost to them. You do have a co-pay to cover, plus a little extra, so it's still more expensive than you'd pay in the UK for medicine.
Counterpoint: this seems to not be a problem ANYWHERE but the US.
I was not referring to him specifically
You’re completely missing chronic conditions, which as a whole are very common and expensive.
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I think they don't want to make judgements about your ability to play.

It's one reason why there's prescription-strength ibuprofen. I can personally just go buy OTC ibuprofen and take the required dosage, but some people can't afford that, so they get the prescription strength where their out-of-pocket cost is $0.
Ok, that's a fair point, although it was not implied that Tesla will not improve efficiency, it was just a quick illustrative calculation.

They've been cost-cutting very aggressively so I assume there are few low-hanging or middle-hanging fruits left.

The big picture is that their business is currently not profitable without government money, which doesn't scale linearly with revenue. Sure, I guess they will slowly improve their margins in the future. But my point is that it's unlikely that their car manufacturing business will become a massive cash cow as the market seems to think.

Batteries becoming cheaper won't directly translate to margins because of competition.
I know, I just chose an esoteric hacker-y thing for maximum hyperbole.

But really, the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people could not possibly care less about what people complain about in regards to the Mac on here. Is the hardware pretty and performant? That’s what they care about. Nobody gives a damn about running Linux on a MacBook Air.
I looked up his business dealings: he never had anything to do with PayPal, much less being a founder.
>The main question is, do you believe they can keep it up, and I for one do.

The beauty of buying back shares is that you don't need to "keep it up" as much, because you're not beholden to shareholders as much...
Funding for the project/department as well as personal career prospects of everyone involved are tied to the publications. Various approaches to analysing those produce importance numbers. (Note: Pagerank was an attempt of doing same to non-scientific publications and we all know how that went.) Said numbers are picked by bureaucracies to determine the objective worth of groups and individuals. Growing said numbers is literally what the livelihood of academics, at least at some stages of their careers, depends on.

So, yes, that's fundamentally "a matter of funding". It can be fixed by academics and bureaucrats agreeing to switch to some other system. On international level. I think if you got the top 20 countries to coordinate, the rest would follow suit. Any bets on when that will happen? ;)
That 2-3% is for the insurance layer, not the parent organization.

Consider CVS Health which owns Aetna (an insurer), Caremark (a PBM) and CVS (a pharmacy). Aetna is required to spend 80% on premiums whereas Caremark and CVS face no such constraints on their profit margins.

There's a reason why there's so much M&A in this space while consumers are simultaneously facing higher premiums.
That says more about the fundamental problem with the system than it does any given individual. When I see stuff like this that tries to push blame on an individual for tweeting I have to immediately scoff because it totally gives cover to the system that gives people a very healthy amount of rope to hang themselves with in the first place.

This isn't a defense of the guy by the way since all of this schtick is to ride positive PR as a billionare looking to enter political office in a climate where people aren't exactly enthused about billionares.
Another great example of this is effective keyboard navigation is both an accessibility feature and something you can sell as a feature for power users who like to get things done as quickly and effortlessly as possible.
Some would say abstract data types are not OOP -- OOP is defined by how it's different from ADTs: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2009/essay.pdf
Cool game, very fun to play, well done!
Devices being easy or difficult to repair is not really the crux of right to repair. It's more about people being empowered to be able to fix them should they have the skill to do so.

I'm only following the subject casually so I might be biased to have incomplete information but apple is seemingly worse that it's peers when it comes to repairability.

A quick Google search takes me to a page where Samsung lists official resellers of parts for their devices. The selection wasn't great but as far as I know apple doesn't do even that. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Apple has been in litigation in my country trying to block a independent repairer from procuring parts(think it was refurbished original screens).

I haven't heard of any Android phone manufacturers serial linking parts the same way apple has. At least not to the same extent.

TBH, I think most of the smartphone manufacturers are worse than Idd want them to be, but I definitely think Apple is among if not the worst of them when it comes to repairability
I'm inclined to trust Wikipedia more than Cuban. They had a wikiwar sometime back about the inclusion of drug prices (the anti-price faction won), but older article versions still list the sticker price in the developing world at USD 0.01 to 0.06. That's credible, considering what a simple molecule the active principle is.
Well I get the raw data in a ESP8266 at which point I could certainly transform it using various calibration curves on the way to the (Home Assistant-based) dashboard.
> And so far they haven't shown the ability to do that

You do know that the best selling EV in Europe isn't a Tesla ? https://i.redd.it/m6z20txyyvd61.jpg

Also Porsche Taycan is better in almost every single way than a Tesla: 800V architecture, driving dynamics, interior/exterior design, polish etc. Likewise the VW ID 3/4 is very much on par with a Model 3.
He became a billionaire from Facebook stock not from venture investing.

EDIT: That's according to him. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy overhypes his assets. Also his divorce likely cost him half (they got married before he joined FB).
If it gaps down stop loss orders won't execute at the stop loss order price (because there is no buyer at that price). Therefore previous paper profits are not locked in with certainty with stop loss orders. You need prices to swoop down in an orderly way with sufficient liquidity for stop losses to work in the way I think many imagine they do.
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That's extremely interesting. Thanks for sharing.

I'm not into C/C++ for years though and now I wouldn't grok the code, sadly.
The most famous example I heard about was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Sound:_Kaze_no_Regret
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It makes a lot of sense for modeling real world objects that can do things and have state.
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I definitely would, since the response to Shkreli has been primarily online ranting. He's never been at significant risk for physical harm as a result of the public discourse as far as I can see. I don't consider negative public opinion and castigation for unethical behaviour to be unwarranted or undesirable, so I can't see that rising to the level of vigilantism either.

In my view, society would become severely dysfunctional if we are expected to withhold our negative views of someone's choices, from fear that too many people will share those views.
Pension pots actually often do follow a path of minimising risk, with the percentage held in cash and government bonds increasing as pensionable age nears.
Anecdotally - it seems like a non-trivial percentage of my mom's trips to the vet end in euthanasia.

I suspect there is an order of magnitude in the difference in level of care that goes into the average person vs dog. I mean, for one, it is very common to hear things like - "well, you have to remember, their lifespan is short. They only have a year or so left to live." This just isn't a discussion that is had with people.
Isn't that just reinventing classes?
No, the negotiation phase doesn't leak ip addresses anymore
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One of the roles of the fed is to prevent financial markets from suffering liquidity induced meltdowns. It’s a basic service that benefits everyone, like roads or the post office.
> Nor do I find charming the belligerent lack of any magical syntactic sugar for `self`.

And what would that look like exactly? The Java-like approach, with any non-declared variables being the current object's attributes, wouldn't work because Python doesn't use declarations and can have named objects in any scope. The alternative is to use a "magic" variable appearing out of thin air, like Javascript's "this" -- but this is basically what "self" does, only explicitly.

Any other ideas?
And that medicine is likely subsidized. If this company is truly transparent, then we can see that it cost more than $3.30 to make it. So you are paying more, just in taxes.
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Unfortunately I think preventing it in the future will end up being something that prevents retail investors from impacting the market rather than reigning in Wall Street.